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Almost two months have passed since President Xi
Jinping took office. Despite expectations for greater transparency, Beijing continues
to try to suppress information on a broad range of issues from human rights to
public health.

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New York, September 18, 2012--Chinese
authorities should release a well-known academic and Internet writer detained last
week in connection with his published articles, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Jiao Guobiao has been targeted in
the past for his articles criticizing the Chinese government.

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New York, April 25, 2012--The U.S.-based, Chinese-language news
website Boxun has
come under two crippling denial-of-service attacks in the past week as the
outlet sought to report on the unfolding murder and corruption scandal
involving former senior Communist Party leader Bo Xilai. The attacks forced Boxun to change its hosting company twice,
the site's founder and editor Watson Meng told the Committee to Protect
Journalists.

Meng, who spoke to CPJ from his home in North Carolina, said he had not been able to trace the source of the denial-of-service attacks but believed they were in reprisal for Boxun's reporting on Bo Xilai and his ally Zhou Yongkang, the Communist Party's security chief, whose political fate has also been the subject of speculation this month. The first attack, on Friday, was so severe that it not only threatened Boxun but its entire hosting service, name.com. Denial-of-service attacks overload host servers with external communications requests, thus preventing websites from functioning.